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7:55 PM ET, June 27, 2015

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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
God and Marriage Equality  —  In the late nineteen-fifties, Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter met and fell in love amid the sleepy small towns and picturesque horse farms of Virginia's Caroline County.  Loving was white and Jeter black (as well as Native American), which meant …
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Jeb Bush has a new problem: John Roberts  —  The former Florida governor suddenly finds himself called to answer for the chief justice appointed by his brother.  —  Jeb Bush is always facing nagging questions about the Bush family's political legacy.  Now he's got another: John Roberts.
Discussion: Instapundit and Human Events
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Let's Drop the Charade: The Supreme Court Is a Political Branch, Not a Judicial One  —  ut this Court is not a legislature.  " Chief Justice John Roberts actually published that sentence in his same-sex marriage dissent on Friday . . . a mere 24 hours after his maestro's performance …
Discussion: Power Line and Viking Pundit
Peter Lakomy / National Review:
Constitutional Remedies to a Lawless Supreme Court
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Republican Sen. James Inhofe: My Gay Friends Think Court Ruling Was Bad  —  “I know a lot of people, actually a lot of people who are friends of mine in the gay community, who also think it was a bad decision.”  —  Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma says he has a lot of friends …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
G.O.P. Hopefuls Denounce Marriage Equality Ruling
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Gay Conservatism and Straight Liberation
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Ten Days in June  —  What a series of days in American life, full of savage mayhem, uncommon forgiveness, resistance to forgiveness, furious debate, mourning, and, finally, justice and grace.  As President Obama led thousands of mourners in Charleston, South Carolina, in “Amazing Grace,” I thought about late 2013 and early 2014.
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Katie Johnston / BostonGlobe.com:
Mass. home health workers win wage hike to $15 an hour  —  After five months of negotiations with the Baker administration, more than 35,000 personal care attendants in Massachusetts won an agreement for a $15-an-hour starting wage, the first state-level victory in a nationwide campaign to raise low-wage workers' pay.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Associated Press:
Woman removes Confederate flag in front of SC statehouse  —  COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — The Confederate flag has been temporarily removed from in front of the South Carolina Statehouse.  —  An unidentified black woman was about halfway up the more than 30-foot steel flagpole …
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Brendan O'Connor / Gawker:
CNN Mistakes Dildo-Covered Flag at Pride Parade for ISIS Flag  —  In this clip, a CNN anchor and editor fail to recognize that what they have identified as an “ISIS flag” is actually a flag of dildos and butt plugs, rendered in the style of ISIS.  —  “If you look at the flag closely, it's clearly not Arabic,” CNN's Lucy Pawle admits.
Discussion: Fusion and The Huffington Post
Bloomberg Business:
Greeks Line Up at Banks and Drain ATMs as Tsipras Calls Vote  —  Greeks line up at banks this morning.  Photographer: Konstantinos Tsakalidis/Bloomberg  —  Greece's banks may need an injection of fresh emergency funds to operate Monday as people rushed to pull out money …
Evan Wolfson / New York Times:
What's Next in the Fight for Gay Equality  —  I ALWAYS believed we would win, but I didn't expect to cry.  —  The Supreme Court's ruling on Friday, that the Constitution guarantees gay people the freedom to marry, is a monumental and inspiring victory.  America got it right.  Love won.  We all did.
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Amy Schumer on Why She Turned Down ‘The Daily Show’  —  The star of Trainwreck and Inside Amy Schumer discusses why she passed on Comedy Central's offer for her to take over for Jon Stewart on the political satire The Daily Show.  —  When Jon Stewart announced plans to end his rich tenure …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Refinery29
Rosa Brooks / Foreign Policy:
Can Gay Marriage Defeat the Islamic State?  —  A few — admittedly sappy — thoughts on the power of #LoveWins.  —  I was thinking about two sets of images this morning: one from an Islamic State-controlled city in Iraq, the other from the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.
Tim Culpan / Bloomberg Business:
Apple Suppliers Start Making iPhones With Force Touch  —  Apple Inc. has started early production of new iPhone models with a feature called Force Touch, which senses how hard users are pressing down on a screen, people with knowledge of the matter said.  —  Its newest iPhones …
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Diana Al Rifai / Al Jazeera English:
Kurdish recapture of Syria's Kobane reported
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Terrence Dopp / Bloomberg Business:
Chris Christie Said to Plan Tuesday Announcement of Presidential Run
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Hillary Clinton slams GOP as ‘party of the past’
Adam B. Lerner / Politico:
White House set aglow with rainbow pride
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